Prayer Station News.
Craig and I took the DTS out on tuesday. We prayed for 19 people. We had some very good conversations and learned a little bit more about how to do it.

It was really cool to see the students step out and offer people prayer, a few of them were pretty nervous to beging with.

Neat definition for Courage: Courage is not the absence of fear, but doing what is right and necessary in the presence of fear.

JESUS, Liar, Lunatic, Legend or Lord?
One thing that has stuck out to me recently is that its impossible to be cool and share the gospel. The gospel isn't fashionable and won't ever be. I have also realised that most people believe in God, they just aren't really sure about Jesus. Some think he was "a good teacher" which is really funny becuase they don't seem to know what he really taught and even if they do they don't believe it.....yeah ok. Think about this: every other belief system/religion is trying to do one major thing, devalue Jesus or do away with the need for him altogether. It really makes sense that this is where things are at for most people, becuase as Jesus said, "I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me." John 14:6 msg "So Jesus said again, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that I Myself am the Door for the sheep." John 10:7 applified. This is where the truth gospel lies....THERE IS NO OTHER WAY HOME. Obviously someone is trying to hide the door from us.

Photo taken by my beautiful wife.

Portland

Jessi and I were in Portland for the weekend attending a business seminar in the Rose Garden (home of the trail blazers). It was awesome. We were inspired and challenged to continue building our business. It was really encouraging to hear the stories of people who have done it before us and been hugely successfull. Another cool thing.....all of the people who have done real well in the business are Christians its nice to see so many Godly peeps who are out there influencing the business world.

We also go to stay at my friend Lacy's house.

Thanks so much Lace for letting us stay at your house, we really appreciated it and enjoyed hanging with ya.

Jamie Wins!

The shoes went for $133.49. I'm very happy with that. I made $100 bucks doing nothing....nice.
So Jamie's guess of $185 was the closest, but she shouldn't really get the five bucks, becuase I did say that whoever got within $5 of the final price would win, but I'm no stickler for rules. Jamie you're gonna get the mula. Well done!

Prayer Station is a Go.
I took the Las Vegas team (from the traveling dts) out to Grandview park today to do the prayer station for the first time.

It was Awesome. We weren't there 20 seconds and people started coming up for prayer. We only had 45 mins out there, but we got to pray for at least 10 people. We even saw one person come to Christ (Joanna please pray for her). Awesome huh?

I was so surprised that it went so well. I thought it would take sometime before people would begin to get used to our presence on the drive. People are pretty hungry for prayer.

We did have one guy complain right at the very end though. He was pretty up set at Christians and made it clear that we weren't welcome there, funny how everyone we prayed for didnt seem to mind.

"Blessed are you when they have insulted and persecuted you, and have said every cruel thing about you falsely for my sake."
Sweet, I'll take that blessing.

Shout out to the Vegas DTS, they did great!

I plan to go out again early next week. So throw out a prayer for me us if you think about it.

Apple

Another new I pod.......So predictable.

I knew it. I knew they would release another one that plays video.

They are definately milking the cash cow.

If you want to buy it dont just wait a week I am sure they will have another ipod that plays video that is even smaller and then one week later they will bring out an ipod that will access the internet and then one week after that they will make one that is smaller and then........

Okay maybe I am just jealous that they have a cool product to sell and I dont.

Let the games begin

Jamie Porter has the first guess of $185
Thanks Jamie for starting us off.
Anyone else have a guess?
oooh Dave and Heather counter with a smooth $191

Jessi has guessed $210
Angela has guessed a whopping $345 oh I hope you're right!


Now we're rolling.

Shoe Update

Woo Hoo. I stuck the shoes on ebay last night (tuesday) with a starting bid of $0.99 and now (12.14pm wednesday) they are already at $113 sweet huh? Thats means I am going to make at least 3 times what I paid for them. If you want to keep an eye on the auction click on the link to the right.

Lets have fun with this.
This could be the most successfull auction I've done on ebay. Does anyone want to guess what they will they will go for? $5 to the the person who gets within $5 of the final price below or above.
I WILL PAY.

"It must be the shoes!"

I used to be obsessed with shoes, not any kind of shoes, pretty much just sneakers. I would spend hours checking out the latest kicks sometimes paying up to £120 (A stinking lot of Dollars) for shoes....thats kind of embarresing to say. Well my past obessesion is paying off now literally. I dont care about owning the shoes anymore, I just want to find them and sell them to some other sucker that is obsessed. I really enjoy going to thrift stores and rummage sales and looking for vintage sneakers/anything that will sell on ebay......Its amazing what people get rid of. So I went to Value Village yesterday and found an awesome pair of Nike's (above) .....They are a total collectors item and some peeps are selling them on ebay for $300. So guess what I'm gonna do...post them on ebay. I have sold several pairs of shoes before. Once I sold a pair of shoes for $265. So any one have any vintage Nike's they want to donate?

Prayer Station

I am trying to set up a prayer station (a prayer station is where you offer free prayer on the street to anyone that wants it) here in Van and its going really sloooowly....I guess its always the same when you are trying to do any God thing though.

Anyways I am really excited to get going with it, I have to take out 2 teams next week so I really hope I can get everything ready by then. I think we are going to see some awesome things happen when we start to pray for peeps. The Prayer station idea originated in New York and they've seen healings and conversions and all kinds of stuff...gotta go for supper more later maybe

Suitcase Diaries

Well this is the first entry. Its a bit strange for me sharing my feelings with the world, but I'm sure it will be fun, maybe even theraputic.... yeah, theraputic would be nice. Maybe I'll start walking up to people on the street and just telling them how I feel. I wonder how that would go over on "the drive".

Well Jessi (my bride) and I have just moved to vancouver, bc and we are settling in very slowly. Its been pretty tough going so far as we dont have our own place yet, its been a little cramped and annoying living out of a suitcase. A think its been a bit harder for Jessi, but things are going to get better. We are going to rent a friend's appartment and we move in on wednesday. Ha---lay---looo----jah It will be nice to have our own space.